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I never worried about topping myself.
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Worried
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Maybe not many women are going to film school.
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Film School
Women Are
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Australia has produced amazing costume designers that are unheralded.
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Australia
Costume
Designers
Produced
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I have worked with some of the most amazing costume designers in the world.
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Most Amazing
Costume
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I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me.
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Attach
Themes
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We need more drama on Australian TV. We've actually dropped the ball on that.
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Australian
Dropped
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Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S.
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Facto
Liberal
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It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.
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Recognised
Suddenly
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When I was 18 years old, I had never before seen Australian film on the big screen.
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Australian
Big Screen
Australian Film
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You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.
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Express Yourself
Rarely
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After Sept. 11, there was a reticence and worrying about films that touched on war, and even more on terrorism.
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Reticence
Terrorism
Touched
Sept
Worrying
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It's really actually been pretty shoddy and appalling, the amount of local content, Australian drama, on ABC TV.
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Amount
Australian
Drama
Abc
Tv
Appalling
Content
Local
Shoddy
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It often takes a couple of years to get a script right and then takes a couple of years to get financing together.
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Financing
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Hollywood is a very old and very structured situation. There's still a lot of old boys at the top who have the money.
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Structured
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Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be.
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Sick
Man Woman Young
Frankly
Young Woman
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I put on 'Starstruck' for my kids, and they started getting bored. I was so upset, I took it off. They preferred 'Home Alone.'
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Bored
Upset
Preferred
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Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills.
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Dropping
Lacking
Skills
Unemployed
Ending
Jails
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I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.
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Credibility
Filmmaker
Documentary
Hip
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Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.
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Choices
Critics
Strong
Strong Women
Oh
Complex
Wrong
Films
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The question I always ask is: 'Where are all the women directors in America?' You know, where's the female Martin Scorsese, the female David Lynch?
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Scorsese
Women Always Know
David
David Lynch
Martin Scorsese
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I do think the moral line you walk all the time about putting something in for the sake of the film and not being affected by people's lives is a very tough one.
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Sake
Time Walk People
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'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.
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Generations
Sentimental
Love Men Women
Connotations
Love Women Men
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There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get that power if you've made a couple of hundred-million-dollar successes.
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Handful
Clause
Final Cut
Only A Handful
Successes
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Cable television stations in America are now producing such smart, in-depth, non-formula, character-based dramas. Film has turned more and more into big action or cartoons.
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Stations
Cable
Cartoons
Dramas
In-Depth
More And More
Producing
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When I was a young filmmaker starting out, I was really snobby about all the affirmative action for women filmmakers because I felt it should be about your talent, and I made a film that won awards, and people wanted me.
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Action
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Awards
Film
Snobby
Talent
Women Your Me
Won
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I was a young film student around the time of the new wave in film in the 1970s; old Hollywood was naff and over. For me, as a film student, I was going to see French and Italian cinema; American cinema was 'Easy Rider' and 'Taxi Driver.' Everything was gritty.
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Cinema
Italian
Taxi
Wave
Time Me New
Time Me Cinema
Driver
Gritty
Rider
Taxi Driver
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